How to Make Fruit Salad From Scratch

How Long Does It Take To Make Fruit Salad?

Prep time: 30 min

Ready in: 30 min

Yields: 8 portions

Why Is Fresh Fruit Better Than Canned Fruit?

When you make fruit salad from scratch, you can avoid canned fruit, which contains added sugar. If you want to loose weight or at least not gain any more, you don't need added sugar in your fruit salad. Fresh fruit is sensual, delicious, healthy and filled with goodness and energy.

Having lived in the Andalusian countryside since 2001, I know, I am spoiled for choices when it comes to cheap, available fresh fruit, as all kinds of exotic fruit seems to grow around me: oranges, mangoes, apricots, grapes, kiwis and many, many others – some which existence I didn't even know about, when I first came to live here from Denmark. However, now the hard to get fruit or expensive fruit for me are berries like blackcurrant, blueberries and raspberries, which weren't hard to get in Scandinavia.

So your choice of fruit might be influenced by where you live and your budget.

Sharpen your fruit knife and let's do it!

Ingredients For Fruit Salad

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Ingredients

2 Bananas

10 Strawberries, big

20 Grapes

1 Orange, big and juicy

2 Kiwis

2 Apples

1 Mango

25 gram Dark chocolate, (It will bring a portion up to 111 calories (9 from fat))

Fruit Salad

Nutrition Facts

Serving size: 1 portion

Calories

92

Calories from Fat

0

% Daily Value *

Carbohydrates 18 g

6%

Fiber 2 g

8%

Protein 1 g

2%

Sodium 2 mg

* The Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet, so your values may change
depending on your calorie needs. The values here may not be 100% accurate because the recipes have not been
professionally evaluated nor have they been evaluated by the U.S. FDA.

How To Make Fruit Salad From Scratch

You can see all the ingredients to your right and in the picture above.
You can of course swap some of the fruit in the recipe for fruit of your own choice, however, if you do so, be aware that the nutrition facts will not be accurate anymore.

Take the peel of the bananas and cut them in half . Cut them lengthwise twice and finally cut them into slices. Put the banana pieces into a bowl of appropriate size or leave them on a cutting board until you are all done.

Ten big, red strawberries add some colour to the dish. Cut the green tops off the strawberries and cut each strawberry into 4 pieces.

The fresh grapes are each cut into 2- 4 pieces, according to their size. It's up to you whether you remove the seeds or not.

Peel the big, juicy, orange and cut it into small pieces. You might want to peel it over the serving bowl as the juice from the orange prevents the other fruits like bananas and apples from turning brown.

Peel the kiwis and cut them into small pieces. (See how to peel a kiwi in the video further down).

Peel the apples and cut them in half. Do the same thing one more time, so it's easier to remove the cores. Finally cut the apple pieces into small pieces.

Now you should have a delicious mango left and you might wonder how to peel and pit a mango? If so have a look at the video below - and it will all become clear. When you have done as shown on the video, cut the mango into small pieces.

How to peel and pit a mango

How To Peel a Kiwi

Chopped Fruit Ready to Be Mixed

All the ingredients chopped up and ready to mix...if you haven't alrady done so during the process. | Source

The Benefits Of Dark Chocolate

Besides from adding a lovely flavor to the fresh fruit, dark chocolate has a few health benefits, when eaten in small amounts (max 20 gram of 70%+).

Dark chocolate:

Amplifies the feeling of quality of life.

Is a rich source of various vitamins and minerals due to its high content of cocoa.

Can rectify the deficiency of magnesium, which is important to our muscle building, energy production, metabolism and the function of the nervous system.

Contains a number of antioxidants that protect the body against diseases.

Coconut Flour Or Dark Chocolate?

By now you should have all your ingredients chopped up on your cutting board, like the picture above you, or already mixed in the process like the picture below.

An addition for the ones with a sweet tooth is a teaspoon of coconut flour sprinkled over your portion of fruit salad. Coconut flour contains no less than 61% fiber and 1 teaspoon of coconut flour contains only 15 calories, which would bring your dessert up to 107 calories.

If you want to make it extra special, you can always add a sprinkle of dark chocolate, which has various good qualities, when consumed in small amounts. (See "The benefits of dark chocolate" to your right). If you add 25 gram of dark chocolate into the whole fruit salad, your portion would be 111 calories.

Whether you spice up your dessert with dark chocolate or coconut flour or eat it natural, it's a great "in-between-meals-snack", when you are trying to keep your intake of calories down and it is a killer dessert, when you invite people for a meal.

2 comments

Yummy! I love making fruit salad from scratch. It´s always a delicious experience creating fruit salad from fruits which are already at home. Thanks for sharing your recipe. I have not tried fruit salad with chocolate, yet.

A Dane in Spain 2 years ago from Torrox, Malaga. Spain Author

Hi Thelma. Thanks for stopping by. I hope you get to try a fruit salad with dark chocolate, as well. And yes, you are right, it is so wonderful to create different things with fruits, that are just at hand.

By the way, I just visited your Fruit Snack Mix Recipe....and it looks delicious!